If Romney wants to be a serious GOP candidate he needs to create distance between himself and RomneyCare. He needs to stand up and say "It seemed like a good idea, but the Dem legislature has bastardized my original vision. Also, and more importantly, what happened in MA has shown me that gov't run healthcare does NOT work and I am sorry for the part that I played in the process in MA. I will take what I've learned about the MA health plan and USE that knowledge to make sure that NOTHING like that happens on the federal level."

OK, you're STILL talking about 2 different things. The states are participating in the lawsuits. That is a decision by the state AG. It in no way implies that the state LEGISLATURE is in agreement with the AG's position in the lawsuit or that the LEGISLATURE would vote on an Article V action. A conservative AG could join the lawsuit but a Democratic LEGISLATURE would still not vote to repeal an amendment to the Constitution. 26 AG's in the lawsuit has no bearing on what 33 LEGISLATURES would do.

Still don't get your point. It takes 33 states to ratify/amend a Constitutional amendment. Just because 26 states have joined a lawsuit to stop ObamaCare, that has nothing to do with the Constitution. If 36 states join the lawsuit, that means that 36 states' Attorneys General have the same opinion and will participate in the suit...it has nothing to do with Article V. You seem to imply that if the # rises above 33, that that will have Constitutional implications, and it does not.

Not sure what you're driving at here.... It seems that you are confusing the states that are filing lawsuits against ObamaCare with what the Constitution demands as necessary for the ratification of an amendment. No state, as yet, is looking to ratify, repeal, or amend any part of the Constitution.

1) make health insurance individually-based rather than employer-based. Every household buys their own coverage. Then, if you lose a job, you don't lose coverage. 2) enable buyers to purchase across state lines. If an insurer in Utah has the best deal, I can get it. 3) offer tax incentives, a sliding scale based upon household income, for those that earn less to get coverage at a lower premium. 4) standardize the plan offerings nationally, from a cheaper, bare-bones plan to a rich plan (with correspondingly higher premiums). You choose what you want. 5) everyone must be in the pool. That eliminates pre-existing conditions clauses. Correspondingly, insurers cannot deny coverage. 6) I'd even be willing to cover illegals as long as they...

The GOP should come right out and say that their new replacment for ObamaCare will not let insurers deny coverage for pre-existing conditions. They can stop the Dem drumbeat on that issue. No one, going forward, is going to support pre-existing exclusions or "dropping customers because they submit a claim".

"Why is the clean energy technology going to China to build new power plants, but we can not build them here?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Simple. For the last 4 decades American government has been held hostage by the environmental lobby. After 3 Mile Island in the 70's, NIMBY has ruled in America while the rest of the developed/developing world has taken steps to advance their own power generating capability. We can't drill in ANWAR because the enviro lobby says that it would be an enviro disaster. How can that be? We drill on land in much of the lower 48, and have for over a century. Are PA, OK, TX, vast wastelands of one drilling calamity...

I'm certain that Ryan would also say that GITMO has to be closed because it's a poster for Islamist recruiting. Yeah, like if GITMO was closed the Islamists would say "Wow! Gee, I'm OK with it all now, that was the only beef I had". Liberals like Ryan have a fundamental problem. Their ideology cannot survive when it comes into contact with reality. This "Israel runs too much of America" argument goes back decades and its the simple musings of simple minds. And, while I'm at it, kudo's to the Israeli-US partnership that gave the world the STUXNET virus currently making life exceedingly difficult for Mahmoud Ahmedinijad.

Who Lost the Middle East? Jimmy Carter lost the Middle East when his feckless, Obama-like hand-wringing allowed the Iran hostage crisis to linger for 444 days. Had we replied with a strong response to the Islamists in 1979, then climate might very well be different today.

Let's see the Dems stretch their necks out, yet AGAIN, for this monstrous waste of money and regulatory quagmire. Saw James Clyburn (D-SC) on TV yesterday. He said that sure, he was in favor of some changes in a "bipartisan way". That's politic-speak for "only the changes that both sides can agree on". Pretty disingenuous for a guy, who, the day before last Nov election, told voters to "get out and re-elect Dems so that they could "finish the job" on ObamaCare...to enact a public option. We all know that the only changes the Dems want are to move maybe 3, but no more than 5, semi-colons in the 2400 page bill. Now we'll get them on the record once again as to who STILL wants to back this lousy law. Then we know who to target....yes I...